Buchanan Center for the Arts Hosts Printmaking Class at Bishop Hill
By - Susan Van Kirk, President of the Buchanan Center for the Arts
Join the Buchanan Center for the Arts in an all-day trip to Bishop Hill where you’ll enjoy a mono-printmaking class. We’ll meet at the Buchanan Center on the Square at 9 am on April 18th and go to Bishop Hill where you’ll make your own print with Katrina Morrison in her studio art gallery called Garden Thyme.
Todd DeDecker, Administrator of the Bishop Hill Heritage Association, says, “Bishop Hill is a Utopia on the Prairie where people can experience the best of 1850’s rural life.”
When we arrive in Bishop Hill, we’ll tour the Henry County History Museum and Bishop Hill Art Invitational, shop at the Colony Store, buy lunch on our own, and attend the print workshop from 1-3 pm in the Dairy Building. The bus returns at 4 pm with you and your new print!
The whole event costs $35 for BCA members and $50 for non-members. Call the BCA to sign up at 309.734.3033.
Artist Katrina Morrison said, “I grew up in Seaton, Illinois, a small town near Monmouth. I remember going to Monmouth to buy school clothes and get KFC to take home for supper. In junior high school, a local bank from Monmouth had an art contest to make their calendar with local art work. My drawing was chosen for one of the months, and I received $75. I still have the calendar. I remember thinking, ‘I would love to earn money from making my art.’ In high school, I took as much art as I could and then went to Bradley University where I earned a BFA in printmaking, painting, and drawing. I’ve been living and creating art near Monmouth for over thirty years. So, I am very excited to invite people from Monmouth and the area to my town of Bishop Hill, where I love and create artwork, for a fun afternoon of printmaking.”
Katrina Morrison has an award-winning history in art. After graduating from Bradley in 1993, she formed the Aledo Art Guild and taught art classes. In 2002 and 2003, she was an Artist for Metro Arts for Quad City Arts. Her monoprint, “Her Flowers,” recently won honorable mention at the BCA’s Art in the HeARTland exhibition, and she received the Newcomer Award for her painting, “Lost in the Garden” at the Galesburg Community Arts Center’s Members and Friends 2024 juried art exhibition. In 2024, her print, “Mother” was also in the 64Arts national juried exhibition at the BCA. “Mother Earth” was in the 39th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition. Two of her paintings on paper, “Florence, Italy” and “Chianti Region in Tuscany” were chosen for the 64Arts national exhibition at the BCA, and the latter earned first place for Works on Paper. The Contemporary Arts Center of Peoria awarded her first place for her painting, “Tenuta di Sticciano,” in their Hot Ciao XII members show.
The BCA is excited to give you this opportunity to learn from a master!